Boyer

48,281 people in the United States were counted with the surname Boyer in the 2020 census, making it the 690th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,191.

By the numbers

People: 48,281
Rank: 690th
How common: 1 in 6,191
Per 100,000: 16.2

Where the name comes from

Origin French

From French Boyer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boyer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Boyer

Paul D. Boyer (1918–2018)American biochemist
Charles Boyer (1899–1978)French actor
Jacqueline Boyer (born 1941)French singer
Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776–1850)2nd President of Haiti
Angelique Boyer (born 1988)French born Mexican actress and model
Louis Boyer (1901–1999)French astronomer
Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906–1976)American mathematician and historian
Herbert Boyer (born 1936)American researcher and businessman

People named Boyer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Boyer

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.